(384533) Tenerelli Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 23 February 2010 by WISE at WISE.

Domenick Tenerelli (b. 1935) is an American engineer who served as the Lockheed Martin project manager for the Lunar Prospector Discovery mission, the chief engineer of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the project manager for the Spitzer Space Telescope's spacecraft bus.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Tenerelli is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tenerelli is 2.69 au from the Sun and 3.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number384533
Provisional designation2010 DT56
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter3.72 km (#13,402 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0510
Absolute magnitude (H)16.24
Orbital period5.38 years
Semi-major axis3.07 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.69 – 3.44 au
Eccentricity0.122
Inclination6.78°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.68 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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